SQL Contracts in Nottinghamshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 12 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL 8 19 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 5.67% 11.95% 13.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.22% 36.54% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 30
10th Percentile £506 £228 £223
25th Percentile £516 £270 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £340 £488
Median % change year-on-year +58.09% -30.26% +6.56%
75th Percentile £566 £458 £541
90th Percentile £579 £528 £600
East Midlands median daily rate £423 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +5.63% - +3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £28.83
25th Percentile - £6.57 £32.36
Median hourly rate £12.92 £7.85 £38.24
Median % change year-on-year +64.59% -79.47% -
75th Percentile - £9.14 £44.12
90th Percentile - - £47.65
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.60 £27.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -32.36% -45.00% +42.86%

All Programming Languages
Nottinghamshire

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 36 52 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 25.53% 32.70% 40.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 26 94
10th Percentile £350 £313 £325
25th Percentile £371 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.06% -17.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £519 £529 £700
90th Percentile £545 £563 -
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £425 £425
% change year-on-year - - +1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £6.57 -
Median hourly rate £12.92 £7.85 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year +64.59% -70.35% +23.16%
75th Percentile - £9.14 £38.24
90th Percentile - - £45.30
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.60 £25.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -25.60% -50.00% +42.86%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Nottinghamshire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in Nottinghamshire.

Daily rate trend for SQL in Nottinghamshire

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in Nottinghamshire.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Nottinghamshire

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottingham -5 8 £538 +58.09% 106
SQL
East Midlands

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottinghamshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Asana
2 4 (50.00%) GCP
2 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure API Management
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) IaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) ERwin
2 1 (12.50%) MagicDraw
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 4 (50.00%) IT Project Manager
1 4 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Service Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Service Desk Support
2 1 (12.50%) Service Desk Support Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
1 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth
1 1 (12.50%) OpenID
1 1 (12.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) Migration
1 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (50.00%) Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) CRM
2 4 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 4 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 4 (50.00%) ERP
2 4 (50.00%) Project Management
2 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Logical Data Model
3 1 (12.50%) Product Management
3 1 (12.50%) SDLC
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft